I wonder how many people watch this and don't realize that you have basically unlocked every secret to authentic flamenco harmonic tonality? Brilliant.
of course ...as a French speaking European I am not so familiar with those terms and confused them . For flat we say bémol and for sharp dièse . Sthg else : can you have all 9 notes in the same "song"?
The thing I love about flamenco is the tension, i.e., the dominant. You can’t resolve it, it’s always there keeping you in suspense. It’s the ocean. Thank you, excellent presentation sir.
Man I've learned more about flamenco guitar theory in this video than I've learned in seventeen years living in Andalucía where I came to learn it. Excellent lesson and very well explained. I will get a lot of mileage out of this video. Gracias.
@@paulochavarin3168 yes, and not only knowledge but tremendous skill and a servant like ability to explain it simply and interestingly. Oh, and a history lesson as well!
Seeing the byzantine scale within the flamenco scale also brings sense to this. I'm glad to have it explained functionally also, I think that will help.
The tone on that guitar is absolutely incredible! I was living in the LA area in the '70s and I walked into a music store near Sunset Boulevard and there was a younger guy sitting on a bar stool playing the most incredible guitar music I had ever heard in my life. Flamenco of course! It was my introduction to that style of music. That individual's name was Gino D Auri. If memory serves me correctly, he studied five years at the Rome Conservatory of Music. Went to see him play on stage at the Matador in West LA and I was hooked on Flamenco music. And the dancing of course. Wanted to learn Flamenco more than anything, but due to a pretty serious injury was not able to complete that goal. Thank you for the information. Am also a huge fan of Paco de Lucia. So sad that he is no longer with us.
Adam, you are a natural teacher. I play a totally different style of guitar, but I don't think I've come across anybody in any style, on you tube, explain anything so clearly.
I hear you and can relate......I am a harmonica player of 48 years (was full-time pro by age 20) and play Blues, Jazz (had a swing dance band 10 years), R&B and have been in straight up Bluegrass and Country bands too. FL, San Diego, LA, Austin, PNW but always on the lookout, listening to drummers, bass and horn players mostly for ideas and hope some may soak in by osmosis. Guitarists too of course and I have performed with some even in R&R HoF but, I stayed with this entire video for the excellent presentation.
This was a wonderful lesson in what makes flamenco special, it is not just harmonic minor, nor just phrygian, it is the leading tone of the D# to the E that I was missing when playing and hearing it. Great job!
Excellent explication of theory and beautiful demonstrations of guitar playing! I've taken a lot of lessons and theory classes since I was 13 in '69, and this has got to be in the top five. The way you make it all accessible, even bringing in jazz and classical theory and making Them accessible, is wonderful! Also wonderful is the casual crispness of your falsetas and rasgado, and then the gentle sweetness of the resolution to the C chord around 7:00. So tender!
I'm just in awe. Trying to rap my head around all this theory. It has had me struggling for ever. I keep practicing but I've realized that with out a proper teacher to critique my learned ability. I'll probably just fall short. Thanks you for your video tutorials. I really appreciate the wisdom.
Thank you so much! I've been looking for something like this for years. Finally, somebody manages to explain what happens harmonically in Flamenco by using references to classical music theory, which I actually understand.
I’ve no idea what you just said, but I saw Manitas de Plata in about 1968 at the Odeon in Birmingham England … my first concert. I can still recall the power & excitement of his opening strum. Thanks for prompting the memories.
You rock! I am a filmmaker and a teach film. I am impressed the way you teach. I was looking for a long time for a good flamenco teacher and now I found you. This class was fantastically explained! Thanks!!! Millón de gracias!!!
Four minutes and thirty seconds and I already had to stop. I love your style. I WISH there were more instructors like you. This video will take a LONG time for me to absorb. I enjoy playing just scales and learning about just what I got from your video in the short time I watched it. Everything is based on scales. It's how scales materialized that fascinates me the most. Again, I appreciate your video.
Just to echo many others, bravo!! You have confirmed beautifully everything I had soaked up over my 50+ years of guitar playing and composing. Coalescence of so much and so well accomplished in your quite short video, bravo indeed and many thanks.
Dear Adam I’m studying classical guitar and your explanation have extension to the guitar it self Some of the exercises you show us I’m doing it every morning an particularly some of them is totally incorporated to my study Thank you for your generosity and sharing
Wow I was becoming obsessed with secondary dominates and harmonic minor scales and wondering how it all fit together. Thank you I always loved Andalusian Cadence. You explained everything so wonderfully, now it's opened up a whole new Era for me and my playing. New subscriber
Great video and very well taught. I grew up with Flamenco being half Spanish and play Guitar but always found Flamenco a little difficult but this lesson has opened it up for me! Thanks so much.
I already knew of the nine notes but being raised under the Western music regime your explanation built the bridge to what I would call the E Flamenco scale and now I know much better how and why this scale works. Lucky Spaniards who grow up with this and don’t need all those rationalizations!
Still thinking as the V chord of relative Harmonic Minor , (starting in CMajor, relative minor is Am, sharp the G to create a major dominant V chord resolution to Am, becomes harmonic minor which opens up more chordal possibilities using both a natural G and G#...Those chromatic notes G,G#, A are very useful. Continue by adding a flat five Bflat to the E mode and what once was E phrygian, then became dominant phrygian, is now a full Altered scale-E,F,G,G#,A#,C,D. But the omitted notes are all very useful as well (A, and Bnatural) . This opens up many possibilites for chromaticism as well as implying whole tone riffs with G#,A#,C,D,E (Paco did this a lot). If you do it enough, you start to hear how all 12 chromatic notes work within the context of each chord.(F#,C#,D# are all good chromatic approach notes but also imply subdominant chord relationships relative to many chords such as Dmajor, C# diminished, Bmajor-oh so many more... Eventually, you can stop thinking of scales altogether. But learn them first. Thanks for the video Adam!
Thank you for your knowledgable insights and contributions! You got a little ahead of my next video (a bit behind on that one...), but absolutely, knowing how to connect the main notes with the chromatic passing-notes with awareness of the harmonic implications (or choosing to go against them- consciously) is the ultimate freedom!
I discovered this scale on my own a few months ago, while playing around with the harmonic minor scale. I couldn't quite understand the music theory behind it. It just felt close to the mediterranean/middle eastern microtonal sounds I was trying to imitate. Seeing this video, now I understand the theory behind it as well. Thank you so much!
Fascinating. Phrygian dominant is one of my favorite scales, I don't play Flamenco but I really think I could incorporate this into my playing. You just got a new subscriber because your teaching is Fabuloso.
This was outstanding. Understandable, and approachable, yet technical. I picked up my guitar fairly quickly after the beginning. Got it right way and then started working on chords and harmonies. I think a guitar veginner should probably diagram the scale so they can learn it's firm, but once more advanced they will HEAR it. I could always hear it but would find it accidentally. And if anyone thinks this isn't rock or blues, I present you Hotel California. You may have heard of it. Very goid video. Thank you, sir.
I have suffered hours and hours of guitar teachers who were explaining obscure things using terms I had no clue about (phrygian, dorian,etc.) so I never understood anything but you have the intelligence to show on the guitar while you play and know how to illustrate ( phrygian is scale without flats or sharps ... I never heard that !...). I will have to replay your video multiple times minute by minute to digest all this material but for the first time, it seems accessible with patience ! You are a great teacher !
" phrygian is scale without flats or sharps ... I never heard that !..." It's only true for E phrygian because the notes are the same in C ionian ( C D E F G A B).
Phrygian is the third mode of the major scale. It can have sharps or flats. Major scale - Do re mi fa so la ti do Phrygian- MI fa so la ti do re mi Hope that helps
I agree, this is a wonderfully helpful video which should be shown to every beginner...in my case 20 years later, but now I understand all those cryptic comments about why E-Phrygian is not the actual scale, just the basis... I never saw it fully explained before :)
I've always felt that much of flamenco's melodic tendencies are more naturally explained by maqam theory rather than the western notions of scale + its derived functional harmony. When I hear flamenco phrases, I clearly hear the movement between the core ajnas of Hijaz, Kurd, Nahawand, Hijazkar, and Ajam or Rast (with all the normal microtones adjusted up or down to the 12 equal tempered frets of the guitar). In the maqam rather than scale concept, we can visit all these melodic zones without issue and so we get something more melodically complex than a fixed 7 note scale. So I see the 9 note scale you discuss as simply a kind of maqam kurd that often briefly modulates to Hijaz or Hijazkar for cadential purposes. Still, a great video to explore the complexities of the music with respect to Western theory. And that guitar sounds fantastic.
Ive bought 5 books on arabic maqams on Amazon and none of those books come even close to explaining how maqams even function compared to what you say in your comment here. What bothers me about maqam books is that they teach the maqams relative too the diatonic scale. Im wondering if you can tell me how you learn the maqams in isolation without referring to the western diatonic scale.
I see your Paco poster in the background. A friend of mine turned me on to Al Di Meola back in the early nineties. When I listened to Friday Night In San Francisco, talk about being blown away by de Lucia. I instantly went out and bought everything I could get my hands on. He is an absolute monster of a guitarist.
Truly enjoyed this fabulous lesson. I hung on every word . What a great teacher and so talented. Not to mention that handsome head of hair. Have always loved flamenco guitar. Thank you for sharing this beautiful performance of such great music. ❤
excellent instructional and theoretical video on musical theory and practice. Well demonstrated by an accomplished musician/ guitar virtuoso and brilliant teacher. Thanks for the musical knowledge much appreciated.
The video is very knowledgable and you break things down clearly and professionally. It's well explained and presented. Thank you. It's much appreciated.
I learned some critical things about composing and harmony that are fundamental to everything I am dong not only Falemco theory. Thank you so very much.
I've been learning Flamenco for a few months, and have been wondering why the tonic is major, even though I appear to be playing in phrygian. This is the only explanation I've seen that makes any sense, so thanks for clearing up the mystery!
Because Flamenco is not symphonic, nor sacral vocal polyphonic music, with clear and lush melodic lines, rich harmonies and very basic rhythm. Flamenco is FOLK DANCE music, where the rules are the opposite: melody is non-existent or is super simple, usually some dirge made up on the spot. The harmony in fact serves as a melody of the sorts and it supports the rich rhythm, required for expressive dance. Everything is subservient to the rhythm. In dancing, all is about tension and resolve: left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot … then standing on both feet. So the rules for folk dance music are based on what makes "rhythmic sense", not what makes melodic sense.
@@zvonimirtosic6171 tgis sir is a very interesting ooint you ve made. Bariny people will take time explaining and deminstratiin and that is all very laudable but the Spaniards just get dressed (fancy-dress) grab a simply made guitar and just stomp the floor/sing/play. Then, the castagnettes start
Thank you so much for all the knowledge you share waiting for your more lessons You're an amazing guitarist and musician we met 25 years ago in Spain on Levpace Street playing with Lola Montoya
I learned to play music badly by ear. I don't really understand modes and music theory but I love listening to years of experience from a master. So much here for me to learn. Thanks 👍
"In the deepest part of the DNA" sounds exactly like mine. As a Chicano, I'm related to all the people you mentioned and more. Proud to be a Mestizo! Orale, Adam! Saludos from the San Francisco Bay Area 👊
Brilliant presentation. As a jazz pianist and teacher I appreciate the clear way you break this down. Looking forward to the next vid on harmonic applications.
brilliant explanation!!! It finally makes flamenco understandable in a musical sense. The fact that the E is normally a dominant but behaves as a tonic really makes all the magic happen! and explains everything. Muchas gracias, hombre!!!
Boom! I love this! I had a flamenco teacher in the late 60's who learned in Spain (he's long gone now, RIP), but he never taught me this. I'm trying to re-learn flamenco, as I had not really learned that much before, and have been playing classical. But I bought a flamenco guitar in 2005 (Alhambra 7Fc), so I've been wanting to learn to play flamenco again (had been playing mostly classical). Thanks for this very instructional video! This makes so much sense! I wish I had been taught this years ago. "Bullfights and blood everywhere" made me laugh!
I started flamenco guitar ... last week (also strum some oud and sitar which led me to flamenco), knew about the phrygian scale but also found that 2 other notes would "also be at their place" in that scale. Now, thanks to you I know why ... (G flat and D flat) ! Phil. (Belgium)
@@adamdelmonteguitarist yes, of course. As a French speaking European I am not so familiar with sharp and flat (we use dièse and bémol ..). Another question. Do you find all the 9 notes you mentioned in the same "song" or does the use of D# and G# depend on something particular?
@@jessicarombach1445 The short answer would be, yes! However, in a "song" or cante flamenco, or even an instrumental piece, those 9 notes - I see them as fundamental to the raw material of the melodies coming out of the tradition. In any given cante or toque, (guitar playing) if you find a beautiful way to use other note of the chromatic scale as passing notes that resolve in a way that is satisfying, then that works too, but I would consider it part of a more expansive thinking, rather than just playing it safe only within the 9 note scale. Of course that is the best point of departure.
Wow! Thanks! Thank you very much!!! Recently acquired a Cordoba f7 paco and a Cordba friction pegs. Digging back into my flamenco days and playing up a storm. Landed on this vid looking for something else. Much obliged. A lil knowledge never harmed a fly. Viva el arte! 🤘😔🎸
we are needing more people like you on TH-cam
no advertising, no shit, no editing, just pure knowledge
I wonder how many people watch this and don't realize that you have basically unlocked every secret to authentic flamenco harmonic tonality? Brilliant.
Not every secrets, there are so much more ;)
of course ...as a French speaking European I am not so familiar with those terms and confused them . For flat we say bémol and for sharp dièse . Sthg else : can you have all 9 notes in the same "song"?
I think we can say that it opens a door to learn
now play the bulerias rhythm
@@JamesSpeiser u want it you got it
The thing I love about flamenco is the tension, i.e., the dominant.
You can’t resolve it, it’s always there keeping you in suspense. It’s the ocean.
Thank you, excellent presentation sir.
Where've I been all His life. I dunno if He's blind, but the technique is flawless.
Man I've learned more about flamenco guitar theory in this video than I've learned in seventeen years living in Andalucía where I came to learn it. Excellent lesson and very well explained. I will get a lot of mileage out of this video. Gracias.
Thank you for that comment. Happy this video was useful.
Well that sure doesnt seem right lol
Yes i agree. Me too. This guy has a ton of knowledge.
@@paulochavarin3168 yes, and not only knowledge but tremendous skill and a servant like ability to explain it simply and interestingly. Oh, and a history lesson as well!
Beautiful technique as well. I could listen for hours. "Take a walk on the wild side." Love it
E major asks a question, and Am is the answer. This has just blown my mind!!! Great Vid.
14:14 was when my mind was blown!! The unexplained D# now completely makes sense, supporting a supposed tonic E. Impressive!
Seeing the byzantine scale within the flamenco scale also brings sense to this. I'm glad to have it explained functionally also, I think that will help.
And somehow, I began to think he would get there back when he began to talk about the E phrygian.
It REALLY makes sense now.
the best laid out explanation of the Andalusian Cadence I've heard yet. thank you very much. Fantastic!!
Sir
You're an outstanding teacher.
Great lesson.
Most excellent video.
Being the kind of guy that likes to know what I'm doing, I really appreciate this in depth instruction.
This man speaks with so much respect for his craft. I love his teaching.
The tone on that guitar is absolutely incredible! I was living in the LA area in the '70s and I walked into a music store near Sunset Boulevard and there was a younger guy sitting on a bar stool playing the most incredible guitar music I had ever heard in my life. Flamenco of course! It was my introduction to that style of music. That individual's name was Gino
D Auri. If memory serves me correctly, he studied five years at the Rome Conservatory of Music. Went to see him play on stage at the Matador in West LA and I was hooked on Flamenco music. And the dancing of course. Wanted to learn Flamenco more than anything, but due to a pretty serious injury was not able to complete that goal. Thank you for the information. Am also a huge fan of Paco de Lucia. So sad that he is no longer with us.
I was playing the E phrygian with G# this morning and realized I was in A harmonic minor. So cool. Now I've got the D# to add to the mix. Great video
Andaluzia chords has that warm in the melody that is unique...its like the weather there.
Wow! Great lesson. "opens many windows" my favourite quote!
Oud player from Morocco. I recognize the patterns of old Andalusian music as it is still played today in Morocco.
Incredible player, incredible teacher, incredible lesson.
Adam, you are a natural teacher. I play a totally different style of guitar, but I don't think I've come across anybody in any style, on you tube, explain anything so clearly.
Agreed. But also check out Lucas Brar.
Totally agree, this is an outstanding piece of teaching.
I hear you and can relate......I am a harmonica player of 48 years (was full-time pro by age 20) and play Blues, Jazz (had a swing dance band 10 years), R&B and have been in straight up Bluegrass and Country bands too. FL, San Diego, LA, Austin, PNW but always on the lookout, listening to drummers, bass and horn players mostly for ideas and hope some may soak in by osmosis. Guitarists too of course and I have performed with some even in R&R HoF but, I stayed with this entire video for the excellent presentation.
One of the best flamenco guitar teacher ❤
This was a wonderful lesson in what makes flamenco special, it is not just harmonic minor, nor just phrygian, it is the leading tone of the D# to the E that I was missing when playing and hearing it. Great job!
Excellent explication of theory and beautiful demonstrations of guitar playing! I've taken a lot of lessons and theory classes since I was 13 in '69, and this has got to be in the top five. The way you make it all accessible, even bringing in jazz and classical theory and making Them accessible, is wonderful!
Also wonderful is the casual crispness of your falsetas and rasgado, and then the gentle sweetness of the resolution to the C chord around 7:00. So tender!
That C resolution was exquisite.
Uhh... I'm only 5 minutes into this upload so far and already know that I've come across an extremely use resource here. THANK YOU ADAM!!!!!!!!
I'm just in awe. Trying to rap my head around all this theory.
It has had me struggling for ever.
I keep practicing but I've realized that with out a proper teacher to critique my learned ability.
I'll probably just fall short.
Thanks you for your video tutorials. I really appreciate the wisdom.
Thank you so much! I've been looking for something like this for years. Finally, somebody manages to explain what happens harmonically in Flamenco by using references to classical music theory, which I actually understand.
What can I say...exept how easily a simple explanation can wide once musik taste..Thanx a lot..Adam..BRAVO!!!
I’ve no idea what you just said, but I saw Manitas de Plata in about 1968 at the Odeon in Birmingham England … my first concert. I can still recall the power & excitement of his opening strum. Thanks for prompting the memories.
Hands/nails washed and can confirm that this is the best explanation that is out there! Thank you so much for this video!
You rock! I am a filmmaker and a teach film. I am impressed the way you teach. I was looking for a long time for a good flamenco teacher and now I found you. This class was fantastically explained! Thanks!!! Millón de gracias!!!
One of the best explanations of anything I've ever seen.
This is the best guitar tutorial I ever found on the internet. Great!
Thanks !!! I'm a flamenco student and it's the first time that somebody explain flamenco scale like that ! Waouh !
Best teacher I ever had the privilege of viewing.
Wow F acts like a tritone sub change.?
That G# and D# made the video.
Amazing lesson.
I have my Gitarra by my side and am about to start "Fooling around" because you have inspired patience and understanding, Thankyou.
Grande, Adam!!! Porque explicas la música con pasión y porque no te importa ser altruista. ¡¡Y qué bien suena todo lo que tocas!!
Four minutes and thirty seconds and I already had to stop. I love your style. I WISH there were more instructors like you. This video will take a LONG time for me to absorb. I enjoy playing just scales and learning about just what I got from your video in the short time I watched it. Everything is based on scales. It's how scales materialized that fascinates me the most. Again, I appreciate your video.
Just to echo many others, bravo!! You have confirmed beautifully everything I had soaked up over my 50+ years of guitar playing and composing. Coalescence of so much and so well accomplished in your quite short video, bravo indeed and many thanks.
Many thanks for the masterclass. Pure gold from beginning to end.
Dear Adam I’m studying classical guitar and your explanation have extension to the guitar it self
Some of the exercises you show us I’m doing it every morning an particularly some of them is totally incorporated to my study
Thank you for your generosity and sharing
This video is pure gold. Thank you maestro, you are big inspiration! Greetings from Macedonia.
What a fantastic lesson and breakdown of the scale concepts in flamenco! Extremely helpful!
Besides the notes, I noticed the importance and motion of your right hand. Something for me to work on. I love it. Thank you!
Wow I was becoming obsessed with secondary dominates and harmonic minor scales and wondering how it all fit together. Thank you I always loved Andalusian Cadence. You explained everything so wonderfully, now it's opened up a whole new Era for me and my playing. New subscriber
Great video and very well taught. I grew up with Flamenco being half Spanish and play Guitar but always found Flamenco a little difficult but this lesson has opened it up for me! Thanks so much.
I already knew of the nine notes but being raised under the Western music regime your explanation built the bridge to what I would call the E Flamenco scale and now I know much better how and why this scale works. Lucky Spaniards who grow up with this and don’t need all those rationalizations!
Only in Andalucía, in the rest of the country you hardly hear it
Still thinking as the V chord of relative Harmonic Minor , (starting in CMajor, relative minor is Am, sharp the G to create a major dominant V chord resolution to Am, becomes harmonic minor which opens up more chordal possibilities using both a natural G and G#...Those chromatic notes G,G#, A are very useful. Continue by adding a flat five Bflat to the E mode and what once was E phrygian, then became dominant phrygian, is now a full Altered scale-E,F,G,G#,A#,C,D. But the omitted notes are all very useful as well (A, and Bnatural) . This opens up many possibilites for chromaticism as well as implying whole tone riffs with G#,A#,C,D,E (Paco did this a lot). If you do it enough, you start to hear how all 12 chromatic notes work within the context of each chord.(F#,C#,D# are all good chromatic approach notes but also imply subdominant chord relationships relative to many chords such as Dmajor, C# diminished, Bmajor-oh so many more... Eventually, you can stop thinking of scales altogether. But learn them first. Thanks for the video Adam!
Thank you for your knowledgable insights and contributions! You got a little ahead of my next video (a bit behind on that one...), but absolutely, knowing how to connect the main notes with the chromatic passing-notes with awareness of the harmonic implications (or choosing to go against them- consciously) is the ultimate freedom!
👍Great comment, thanks. :-)
I'm listening to this in Seville. We're going to see a flamenco performance tonight. Thanks for giving me such a wonderful insight into this music.
Thanks Adam. Very clear and well explained adding the G# and D# - and good laugh "9 note scale so you get your moneys worth."
Beautiful phrasing and grace while sharing a great flow in theory fundamentals and function.
Much gratitude !
you're one of those guys when you speak I am instantly fascinated and on board God bless you
I discovered this scale on my own a few months ago, while playing around with the harmonic minor scale. I couldn't quite understand the music theory behind it. It just felt close to the mediterranean/middle eastern microtonal sounds I was trying to imitate. Seeing this video, now I understand the theory behind it as well. Thank you so much!
That was the most valuable Flamenco guitar theory lesson I've ever watched. I feel lucky stumbling across this video...
I could not figure out which key, Am or E when jamming ....from a western rock take. NOW I understand. .......none of them.!....THANK YOU.
Fascinating. Phrygian dominant is one of my favorite scales, I don't play Flamenco but I really think I could incorporate this into my playing. You just got a new subscriber because your teaching is Fabuloso.
an OUTSTANDING presentation VERY educational. thank you SO much !! for a 5 STAR job !!
Now you are my favorite flamenco guitar teacher on TH-cam, thanks for sharing this materials ✌️🙏
You are an amazing teacher. I can tell your are the best of the both worlds, classical guitar theory and Flamenco guitar theory.
brilliant, clear, informative, and he did it in one take
si señor, excelente
Paul C. Piña, (classical guitarist)
best guitar lesson in years, thanks sir !
This was outstanding. Understandable, and approachable, yet technical. I picked up my guitar fairly quickly after the beginning. Got it right way and then started working on chords and harmonies. I think a guitar veginner should probably diagram the scale so they can learn it's firm, but once more advanced they will HEAR it. I could always hear it but would find it accidentally. And if anyone thinks this isn't rock or blues, I present you Hotel California. You may have heard of it. Very goid video. Thank you, sir.
I have suffered hours and hours of guitar teachers who were explaining obscure things using terms I had no clue about (phrygian, dorian,etc.) so I never understood anything but you have the intelligence to show on the guitar while you play and know how to illustrate ( phrygian is scale without flats or sharps ... I never heard that !...). I will have to replay your video multiple times minute by minute to digest all this material but for the first time, it seems accessible with patience ! You are a great teacher !
" phrygian is scale without flats or sharps ... I never heard that !..." It's only true for E phrygian because the notes are the same in C ionian ( C D E F G A B).
Phrygian is the third mode of the major scale. It can have sharps or flats.
Major scale - Do re mi fa so la ti do
Phrygian- MI fa so la ti do re mi
Hope that helps
@@gratefulila9980 "It can have sharps or flats." not in the fundamental state.
@@azerreza4770 e phyrgian is the only one without sharps or flats. Wtf are you arguing about?
I’m here from your guitar salon video of Flamenco Tremolo… I am practicing everyday because it sounds so beautiful
You are an excellent teacher. I actually understand everything your teaching, thank you 😊
I agree, this is a wonderfully helpful video which should be shown to every beginner...in my case 20 years later, but now I understand all those cryptic comments about why E-Phrygian is not the actual scale, just the basis... I never saw it fully explained before :)
I've always felt that much of flamenco's melodic tendencies are more naturally explained by maqam theory rather than the western notions of scale + its derived functional harmony. When I hear flamenco phrases, I clearly hear the movement between the core ajnas of Hijaz, Kurd, Nahawand, Hijazkar, and Ajam or Rast (with all the normal microtones adjusted up or down to the 12 equal tempered frets of the guitar). In the maqam rather than scale concept, we can visit all these melodic zones without issue and so we get something more melodically complex than a fixed 7 note scale. So I see the 9 note scale you discuss as simply a kind of maqam kurd that often briefly modulates to Hijaz or Hijazkar for cadential purposes. Still, a great video to explore the complexities of the music with respect to Western theory. And that guitar sounds fantastic.
Thanks for your insights🪬
Ive bought 5 books on arabic maqams on Amazon and none of those books come even close to explaining how maqams even function compared to what you say in your comment here. What bothers me about maqam books is that they teach the maqams relative too the diatonic scale. Im wondering if you can tell me how you learn the maqams in isolation without referring to the western diatonic scale.
I had been wondering for ages what the flamenco scale was. Thank you.
I see your Paco poster in the background. A friend of mine turned me on to Al Di Meola back in the early nineties. When I listened to Friday Night In San Francisco, talk about being blown away by de Lucia. I instantly went out and bought everything I could get my hands on. He is an absolute monster of a guitarist.
So complex for my small mind but I was able to keep up. Terrific explaining!!
How is it going now? I just start to play
Truly enjoyed this fabulous lesson. I hung on every word . What a great teacher and so talented. Not to mention that handsome head of hair. Have always loved flamenco guitar. Thank you for sharing this beautiful performance of such great music. ❤
this video is exactly what i needed to bridge what ive been learning in music theory as well as on my guitar. thank you.
excellent instructional and theoretical video on musical theory and practice. Well demonstrated by an accomplished musician/ guitar virtuoso and brilliant teacher. Thanks for the musical knowledge much appreciated.
Brilliant....
If only i had this teacher or his method of undstng flamanco scale i would b a star by now
Love from Malaysia
Always inspiring!
Thank you from Japan!
Wonderful guidance from a very good teacher. So natural and fun in his explanations and he is not a show-off though I’m sure he could be.
The video is very knowledgable and you break things down clearly and professionally. It's well explained and presented. Thank you. It's much appreciated.
What incredible informative content... and a very good flamenco player and tutor! Greetings from the Netherlands.
Thank you for this lesson. You play beautifully.
So articulate, such knowledge and great skill....a total joy to behold!
I learned some critical things about composing and harmony that are fundamental to everything I am dong not only Falemco theory. Thank you so very much.
Fascinating beauty - the strength of fusion.
Amazing explanation! looking forward to more videos, gracias!
I've been learning Flamenco for a few months, and have been wondering why the tonic is major, even though I appear to be playing in phrygian. This is the only explanation I've seen that makes any sense, so thanks for clearing up the mystery!
Because Flamenco is not symphonic, nor sacral vocal polyphonic music, with clear and lush melodic lines, rich harmonies and very basic rhythm. Flamenco is FOLK DANCE music, where the rules are the opposite: melody is non-existent or is super simple, usually some dirge made up on the spot. The harmony in fact serves as a melody of the sorts and it supports the rich rhythm, required for expressive dance. Everything is subservient to the rhythm. In dancing, all is about tension and resolve: left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot … then standing on both feet. So the rules for folk dance music are based on what makes "rhythmic sense", not what makes melodic sense.
@@zvonimirtosic6171 tgis sir is a very interesting ooint you ve made. Bariny people will take time explaining and deminstratiin and that is all very laudable but the Spaniards just get dressed (fancy-dress) grab a simply made guitar and just stomp the floor/sing/play. Then, the castagnettes start
Thank you so much for all the knowledge you share waiting for your more lessons
You're an amazing guitarist and musician we met 25 years ago in Spain on Levpace Street playing with Lola Montoya
I learned to play music badly by ear. I don't really understand modes and music theory but I love listening to years of experience from a master. So much here for me to learn. Thanks 👍
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"In the deepest part of the DNA" sounds exactly like mine. As a Chicano, I'm related to all the people you mentioned and more. Proud to be a Mestizo! Orale, Adam! Saludos from the San Francisco Bay Area 👊
Excellent lesson! Thank you so much! Best regards, from Brazil!
Thank You! You couldn't have simplified it any better! I'm on it!
Brilliant presentation. As a jazz pianist and teacher I appreciate the clear way you break this down. Looking forward to the next vid on harmonic applications.
brilliant explanation!!! It finally makes flamenco understandable in a musical sense. The fact that the E is normally a dominant but behaves as a tonic really makes all the magic happen! and explains everything. Muchas gracias, hombre!!!
a ti!🪬
You are an excellent teacher. Thank you for breaking things down
finally i am starting to hear what i am hearing. thank you Adam.
Boom! I love this! I had a flamenco teacher in the late 60's who learned in Spain (he's long gone now, RIP), but he never taught me this. I'm trying to re-learn flamenco, as I had not really learned that much before, and have been playing classical. But I bought a flamenco guitar in 2005 (Alhambra 7Fc), so I've been wanting to learn to play flamenco again (had been playing mostly classical). Thanks for this very instructional video! This makes so much sense! I wish I had been taught this years ago.
"Bullfights and blood everywhere" made me laugh!
Thanks, Adam. All that I can say is, yes!! Finally a clear explanation.
Excellent fluid right-hand technique. Sounds fantastic.
~JSV
Dude, I love ❤️ you! You finally answered what no one else could! Thanks so much
Your explanation has opened new avenues of thought for me. Thank you for your time and clarity!
I started flamenco guitar ... last week (also strum some oud and sitar which led me to flamenco), knew about the phrygian scale but also found that 2 other notes would "also be at their place" in that scale. Now, thanks to you I know why ... (G flat and D flat) ! Phil. (Belgium)
you mean D# and G#…😇
@@adamdelmonteguitarist yes, of course. As a French speaking European I am not so familiar with sharp and flat (we use dièse and bémol ..). Another question. Do you find all the 9 notes you mentioned in the same "song" or does the use of D# and G# depend on something particular?
@@jessicarombach1445 The short answer would be, yes! However, in a "song" or cante flamenco, or even an instrumental piece, those 9 notes - I see them as fundamental to the raw material of the melodies coming out of the tradition. In any given cante or toque, (guitar playing) if you find a beautiful way to use other note of the chromatic scale as passing notes that resolve in a way that is satisfying, then that works too, but I would consider it part of a more expansive thinking, rather than just playing it safe only within the 9 note scale. Of course that is the best point of departure.
This was absolutely brilliant. Thanks from Australia
its the version of A(harm)minor (except for melodic minor) but with the root set to E7. nice complete explanation! thanks
Wow! Thanks! Thank you very much!!! Recently acquired a Cordoba f7 paco and a Cordba friction pegs. Digging back into my flamenco days and playing up a storm. Landed on this vid looking for something else. Much obliged. A lil knowledge never harmed a fly. Viva el arte! 🤘😔🎸